Chapter 121 Everything Is Back to the Starting Point

Many teams and Manchester City will use the full-court pressing style of play, and their style of play will be tougher, which can force Manchester City to pass the ball and disrupt their rhythm to gain the initiative.

Anyone who has studied Manchester City's style of play will know that doing so will restrain Manchester City's style of play.

The match between Chelsea and Manchester City is like this, so the match between Manchester City and Chelsea will be difficult to play, not only the problem of Chelsea's strength, but also the tactical style of play is also a very important aspect.

Another thing that must be mentioned is Bolton. This Premier League powerhouse in Manchester is of average strength, but their tough style of play still gives Manchester City a headache.

This is what Manchester City did today. They pressed very forward in the frontcourt. They kept running to force Manchester City to pass the ball. At the same time, they also played tough defensively. They just wanted to use this method to gain the initiative.

This is actually a question of initiative and passivity. All England knows that it is difficult to win the initiative against Manchester City, because Manchester City's control ability is too strong, their passing coordination is the first in the Premier League, if they are not forced, It will make them pass the ball constantly. The ball possession rate alone is a big problem. Although this statistic does not fully represent anything, considering that most of the time in the game, the football is at the opponent's feet, and the players on the field will definitely feel very passive. , this kind of psychological effect also has a great impact on the performance.

So now Manchester United chose to start defending from the front, forcing Manchester City to pass the ball.

All of their players, including Rooney and Saha in the frontcourt, have defensive tasks, and the areas each is responsible for are also repeated, so even if Manchester City uses cooperation to get rid of a player, there will soon be another player. Make up, there will be no loopholes in the defense.

But United cannot defend all positions, even if they increase the movement of their players. So the defense is still targeted, and their main area to deal with is still the middle.

Manchester City is also the strongest in the middle.

Now Morris has become a flag of England's technical flow midfield. His style is completely different from Gerrard and Lampard. He does not have such a strong long-range shot, and he does not have such a strong personal ability. But with him in midfield, he's going to be very flexible. He is much better than the latter two in terms of organizing offense.

The above are the evaluations of various professionals and the media, and they are still positive about Morris' ability.

As Manchester City's opponents, Manchester United will also study Manchester City. They naturally understand the importance of Morris to Manchester City, and they also know that Manchester City's middle is the most threatening, so their main defense is still in the middle.

Just stay in the middle. It doesn't matter if you put it on the sidewalk. What's more, they have no disadvantage on the wing. Compared with Musampa and Reina, the combination of C-Ronaldo and Park Ji-sung is obviously more powerful, and Manchester United's main offensive is also launched from the wing.

In this game, Manchester United's midway combination is O'Shea and Ryan Giggs.

This may be a desperate choice.

With Scholes unable to play and Fletcher unusable, Ferguson could only choose to let the experienced Ryan Giggs play in the middle and Park Ji-sung to fill the wing.

Ryan Giggs is Manchester United's 'king of the left'. But rich game experience and excellent personal ability are enough to make him qualified for any position. His position is ahead of his partner O'Shea. When football is at the foot of Manchester City, he still has to retreat properly to build a second line of defense for Manchester United - the first is Wayne Rooney and Saha in front.

If Manchester City breaks through Giggs' defense, it doesn't matter, he has O'Shea behind him, as well as Ferdinand and Brown, and when necessary, two full-backs Sylvester and captain Gary Neville can also support the middle.

In short, Manchester United has made great efforts in terms of defense and striving for the initiative.

After two contests with Manchester City this season, Ferguson feels that he has developed a way to play against Manchester City, that is, to oppress them, limit them, and deal with them in a tough way. As long as he can win the initiative, Manchester City has nothing to fear. .

The most important thing is to put on a tough stance and put pressure on Manchester City at any time, even if it is fouled.

This is the way Ferguson explained to the players.

Now that the football is at the feet of Ivan Crewe, Giggs immediately sticks to the past, while Rooney in front of the defense retreats, and O'Shea also pounces on Morris.

The whole Manchester United moved.

Seeing this scene, Ferguson on the bench was very relieved. This is the style of play he specially prepared for Manchester City, forcing them with a tough defense, so that if they want to attack, they can almost only pass the ball to the wing, and On the flank, Manchester United actually has an advantage, because both C-Ronaldo and Park Ji-sung have excellent personal abilities.

The most important thing now is to win this game.

In fact, for Manchester United, the League Cup is not so important. Even if they won nothing last season, the League Cup is still only a taste. For Manchester United fans, the more important thing is to win Manchester City - they can't stand always Losing to a rival in the same city is even harder to accept than not being able to win the championship.

In the past two years, Manchester United have been suppressed by the team led by Wan Sheng. Last year it was Derby County and this year it was Manchester City. Ferguson does not think that his coaching ability is inferior to that of the young Chinese next to him. Dealing with Manchester City again will not be a problem.

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Ivan Crewe sensed the threat from Ryan Giggs and knew it was time to pass without his teammates reminding him.

The football was passed to Koppelle Ferreira behind him.

Koppelle Ferreira received the pass, Saha immediately forced it, he glanced around, the captain Distin was very close to Rooney, and it was a little dangerous, so he passed to Leto- Ziegler.

In front of Ziegler was Park Ji-sung, the Korean pushed very forward, and at the same time Saha ran forward and tried to intercept between Koppelle-Ferrera and Ziegler. At this time, it was not easy for Ziegler to pass the ball. , he can almost only pass forward, or pass back to goalkeeper Wang Xiaolei.

Don't think about returning the goalkeeper, Ziegler will definitely not do that, because he knows that Wang Xiaolei is a rare starter, and young players are already under pressure when they start in the competition. If he creates more pressure... It's too dangerous to make a mistake.

Ziegler hesitated, but Park Ji-sung had already rushed over.

But Ziegler didn't panic and shoved the ball in front of Koppeller. This pass surprised the Korean. He looked over and saw that Koppeller had run to the position and received the pass.

Ziegler raised the corners of his mouth.

You know, Manchester City's passing is not a pass that stands still, they will keep running, running. The 'kill' tactic itself relies on running to open the gap. Even the backcourt players still have to keep running, so just intercepting on the route is useless.

Saha reluctantly ran towards Koppelle again, but Koppler had passed the ball to the captain Distin.

Distin has run out of the vacancy, he and Rooney have a distance of more than five meters, Rooney has no time to run over and can only let Giggs fill the position, but immediately the football was handed over to Morris's feet. The situation suddenly became tense.

Just now, Manchester City have delivered a series of wonderful performances so far. It provoked many fans in the stands to shout.

This is the best combination in the world.

If you don't know, you might think it's Manchester United's half, and Manchester City are attacking, but it was just a pass from Manchester City's backcourt. A key player, no one knows whether he will lead Manchester City to launch a fast break in the next moment.

When the football gets to Morris's feet. The running speed of all the players in Manchester City seems to be one point faster. Many people held their breaths, waiting for Morris's choice in the next moment.

All cameras were also pointed at Morris.

It felt as if the earth suddenly revolved around Morris, everyone was looking at him, everyone was paying attention to him, as if he had become the protagonist in an instant.

Until this time, Manchester United also began to retreat.

They know that the wave of persecution just now did not achieve good results. Instead, they let the opponent's midfield core easily get the ball without being defended. If they retreat slower, they may give the opponent a chance.

But under everyone's attention, Morris did not choose to attack, but passed the ball to the backcourt again... Football returned to Koppelle Ferreira again.

Seeing this pass, many Manchester City players felt disgusting as if they had eaten flies. They had just experienced a wave of pressing. Although it did not play a big role, they were already ready to retreat, but at this time, Does the opponent continue to pass the ball in the backcourt?

Don't they have to attack?

Just when they were stunned, the football passed through three players again, and then reached the foot of Ziegler on the wing. When Ziegler got the ball, there was no defense at all, and Park Ji-sung, who was opposite him, was still on the center line, so He can dribble forward with ease.

Park Ji-sung had no choice but to come forward and press for it. Then he saw Ziegler pass the ball to Manchester City captain Distin. Even though he knew that what he had done was useless, he still felt very depressed after watching the pass. .

The other Manchester United players didn't feel too good either. They returned to the frontcourt, ran and pressed again. Every time they thought Manchester City was going to attack, but Manchester City still passed the ball and passed the ball in the backcourt, it felt like They were played like monkeys.

As a result, when Distin got the ball this time, Rooney was annoyed with a tackle.

Distin was shoveled to the ground, and the referee blew the timeout whistle.

This scene made many people in the audience worried, but in the end, the referee still didn't show his cards and just gave Rooney a warning.

Soon the game continued and then City started passing each other in the back.

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Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines and saw Rooney's tackle. He was a little worried about Distin, but he smiled when he saw Distin standing up.

The way he plays now is what he planned before the game.

How Manchester United will respond, he does not know, but he believes that it is right to play conservatively. It is easier to win football games defensively. It is also very important to be patient. As long as the football is firmly under your feet, no matter what the opponent does It doesn't matter, because they don't have football, they don't have the ability to threaten their own goal.

His advice to Morris was, "If you don't have a chance, continue to control the ball and don't attack rashly."

The change of the ball is always a threat. If Manchester United get the ball and suddenly attack, no matter how well the defense is arranged, they will panic. Manchester United will have a chance at that time, but what if they are not given a chance?

Are they pressing all over the place?

bring it on!

We will pass from the backcourt, you will press hard, no matter how hard the pressing is, the football is under our control, and the initiative will be in our hands.

Then it's a competition between our control ability and your pressing ability.

Wansheng is still very confident in this.

One season is enough to improve the passing ability of each player in the team. Manchester City is a powerhouse in the top league, and the ability of each player is not bad. Coupled with the '3' ability bonus of the coaching skill 'passing boost', and the whole team's training and cooperation for nearly a season, Manchester City is now the team that is best at passing and cooperating in the whole of England. Not at all.

And what about Manchester United's full-court pressing?

They themselves don't pay attention to this aspect, and they just play this temporarily, which is equivalent to using the aspects they are not good at to deal with the aspects they are good at, and the latter will have no pressure at all.

If this kind of competition can also be lost, Wansheng really has nothing to say.

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Ferguson didn't know Wan Sheng's thoughts, but when he saw the game on the court, the old Jazz frowned.

He didn't understand what Manchester City was doing.

Don't they have to attack?

In Ferguson's view, it is undoubtedly very dangerous to keep passing in his own half. This is not an opportunity for Manchester City, but an opportunity for Manchester United. As long as the ball can be grabbed, the team is likely to find a good opportunity.

Therefore, he does not think that Manchester United has any disadvantages, but watch it patiently, looking forward to the team finding good opportunities.

One minute......

two minutes...

five minutes.

In this way, five minutes later, Manchester City's most advanced attack was to pass the football to the Manchester United penalty area, but Ivan Crewe, who did not find a good opportunity soon, passed the ball back to Ray again. Na, Reina then returned to Ziegler, and soon the football went to the feet of Captain Distin.

Rooney came over to press, and Distin didn't even hesitate to hand the ball to goalkeeper Wang Xiaolei.

In this way, after three or two passes, the football went from Manchester United's penalty area all the way back to Manchester City's goal. If anyone didn't know it, they would think that the half-court change of the two teams was that Manchester United was attacking, but in fact, it was Manchester City themselves. Passing back.

Wang Xiaolei faced the ball and kicked it directly to Sun Jihai on the other side.

The mutual pass between the two Chinese players also excited the Chinese media, but in fact, it was just an ordinary pass.

At this time, everything seems to be back.

After five minutes, the football returned to Manchester City's half, and it was still Manchester City who controlled the ball, and the Manchester United players kept running and running throughout the whole process. Worrying about defense, they thought a lot and ran a lot, but in the end they didn't even touch the ball once.

A set of data from commentators from various countries is very telling. "The game started less than ten minutes, and neither team had shot. Manchester City's ball possession rate reached 87%, Manchester United only 13%. So far, several Manchester United players, including Ferdinand, Gary Neville, Saha and Park Ji-sung, have not touched the ball..." (To be continued~^~)